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Hiram T. Hunter LIbrary, Western Carolina College, Cullowhee, North Carolina
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[LIB1350][Website]
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Hunter Library, Western Carolina College, Cullowhee, NC
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[LIB0190] - View facing north across Memorial Stadium, with Scott's Creek Balsam Mountain range in background far right. WCC is a four-year college, co-educational, supported by the State of North Carolina; liberal arts, teacher education, master of arts degrees. [From the back of the card].
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Carnegie Public Library, Hendersonville, NC
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[LIB0148] A reproduction of this item is available for purchase.
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Corriher Linn Black Library, Catawba College, Salisbury, NC
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[LIB3679]The Corriher-Linn-Black Library opened for use in November 1953 and it is the campus center for library and information resources and services. The library is named in memory of Mr. Lotan A. Corriher, Mr. J.P. Linn, Dr. O.R. Black, and Mr. G.O. Lipe. {Thanks to Catawba College, http://libweb.catawba.edu]
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1987 Public Library, Black Mountain, NC
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[LIB3651]
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Greensboro Public Library, Greensboro, NC
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[LIB3621]This Curteich post card is dated from 1967.
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Henderson County Public Library, Hendersonville, NC
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[LIB3620]This attractive building was completed in 1970 at a cost of over a half million dollars and is quite an asset to the city. The original library was started in 1914 and was housed in a one story building. Sincwe then it has grown steadily. [Back of post card]
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L. Nelson Bell Library, Montreat Anderson College, Montreat NC
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[LIB3365]The library is named in honor of Dr. L. Nelson Bell, who was an outstanding missionary, surgeon, author, and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S. [SOURCE]
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Elbert Ivey Memorial Library, Hickory, NC
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[LIB2651]
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1976 Library, Biltmore House, Asheville NC
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"The Library with a ceiling painted by Pellegrini, houses 20,000 volumes." [LIB2376]
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1910 Carnegie Library, Winston-Salem North Carolina
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[HR0309]
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1960s Elbert Ivey Memorial Library, HICKORY NC
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Elbert Ivey Memorial Library was officially closed November 30, 1997, and a gala donor dinner and grand opening were held in January, 1998 for the Patrick Beaver Memorial Library. The History of the Hickory NC Library.
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Thomas F. Holgate Library, Bennett College, GREENSBORO NC
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The Carnegie Negro Library on the campus of Bennett College in Greensboro North Carolina is one of the 1,689 libraries built in the United from States from 1883 to 1929.In the segregated American South, this library, sitting on the northwestern corner of the Bennett College campus, in a neighborhood considered in 1923 as “predominantly black,” had to be referred to as the “Negro Library,” to make it abundantly clear who the patrons would and would not be. Carnegie disliked the segregation system, believing that any human being, like he, could become successful through learning and hard work. But, he did not mind funding separate libraries if that is what it took to give library access to African-Americans.The library today seems more like a museum than place of higher learning. The library was built before many of the Bennett College buildings, and it sits on a soaring perch, overlooking downtown Greensboro, where the rest of Bennett College faces a long re
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1949 May Memorial Library, Burlington, North Carolina
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[LIB0573] The library building on Spring Street was first constructed in 1918 as a post office. In 1938 it was purchased by Mr. W.H. May and given to the city to become a public library in memory of Mr. May's deceased wife. The library website has a great section devoted to postcards of Alamance County. Click here!
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1972 Joyner Library East Carolina University GREENVILLE NC
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